Precis Intermedia brings this classic world book for the MasterBook roleplaying game system (originally published by West End Games) back in PDF format. FROM THE ORIGINAL BACK COVER: Welcome to the world of Fantasy Noir It's a mean old world out there. The sorcerer upstairs conjures too loud; the guy down the hall drinks blood from a six-pack; that stiff you left in the alley is up and walking around. If you're lucky, the Guild will pay you for tonight's work; if you're not, you're going home in a box. A small box. The World of Bloodshadows is a roleplaying game setting that combines pulp adventure with dark fantasy. Tough detectives in weathered trench-coats swap biting comments with vampires in evening gowns. Humans walk down dark streets side by side with dem...

Precis Intermedia brings this classic universal roleplaying system (originally published by West End Games) back in PDF format. FROM THE ORIGINAL BACK COVER: The Only Rulebook You’ll Ever Need With the MasterBook rules system, you can adventure in any game universe imaginable. Flexible and easy to learn, the MasterBook rules can be adapted to everything from science fiction to high fantasy, from pulp adventure to dark horror. The only limit to where MasterBook can take you is your imagination! In this book, you’ll find details on creating characters, choosing skills, running combat, magic, miracles and more — everything you need to start adventuring today. MasterBook is a master game system designed for use with published WorldBooks or settings you create yourse...

These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.

For PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.

For printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. Moiré patterns may develop in photos. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive.

Original electronic format

These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.